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On Display at the Boulder Community Gallery
You Are Home Boulder Artist Grant Show Featuring Tony Jacobsen May 12 - June 29 Opening Reception: May 12, 6 PM Tony Jacobsen, one of the two recipients of the 2025 Boulder Artist Grant, presents "You Are Home". The grant was specifically awarded to support his artistic growth and evolution, and this exhibition showcases the remarkable new body of work he has created. In the artist’s words:
I’ve been a compulsive artist since my earliest memory. I lacked access to basic art supplies in my early years, so the walls of my room, personal belongings, scraps of wood, and cardboard became my canvasses. The margins of my school assignments would be so full of drawings that one of my teachers started cutting the borders of my worksheets preemptively so I wouldn’t be tempted by the free range. I made a diorama of the Grand Canyon in third grade that was put on display in my school’s library. I became infatuated with it and would sneak in any chance I had to stare at and critique my work: recess, lunch, use the restroom hall pass, detour through the library. Though not fully aware at the time, making this little world allowed me to celebrate the landscapes, flora, and fauna outside of literal facts, which, when communicated previously, caused glazed eyes or were viewed by others as annoying or “know-it-all.” When expressed as visual art, my work deepened my peers’ sense of wonder for the natural world, which was very important to me even at this early age. I am a multi-generational Utahn, and I take great pride in and have reverence for the diverse geography of our region. The goal of my work is to move people towards individual growth and action. My work is both energetically and visually inspired by the Rocky Mountain West, Great Basin Desert, Colorado Plateau, especially the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, where I call home. The landscape as viewed, however, is not my inspirational focus. The elemental forces: gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear, the means through which all things attract, interact, and bond. Natural forces: wind, water (gas, liquid, solid), fire, friction, etc., personified as the sculptors of our geographical world. Flora cycles: growth, reproduction, decay. Fauna behavior: the symbiosis required to exist. And human behavior regarding identity, philosophy, and culture as defined by geographical location. While most major philosophical thought has focused on the search for objective universal human truth or spiritual certainty, I am curious to examine what it means to be subject and object at once in the vein of object-oriented ontology. Perhaps paradoxically I am interested in the outsourcing of one's human spirituality/meaning to sources not derived from within an individual's experience. I also seek to challenge the use, or in my opinion, the corruption, of the idea of divinity as justification of anthropomorphic superiority. I see an evolution of humanity that includes zoocentricism and actual earth stewardship. Tony Jacobsen, originally from Oquirrh, Utah, has lived in Boulder for nearly 15 years. In addition to creating art, Tony is a farmer and grows food on his 10-acre property with his partner, Nina, and their many animals. |
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~ Albert Einstein